Respect your top performers or watch them leave - Sales Workiva Employee Review

3.0
Jul 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people in the organization with a true team mentality. Flexibility in work/life balance. Great product. There's so much to love that it's disappointing to see how short we fall in listening to our reps and understanding our market value.

Cons

- Constant changes and underdevelopment of valuable employees. - Dime a dozen mentality for all reps, including top performers. - So many structural changes that you have to rebuild your pipe repeatedly only to watch your top deals walk over to another rep. - Mixed messaging on "platform" perspective and a lot of time spent navigating bottlenecks in the sales process. - Still have an unnecessary "SEC only" vertical which goes completely against selling the platform. Most of those reps don't sell platform and it screws up future conversations. They literally don't know anything about other solutions, while every other rep is required to. - Advancement opportunities that should ideally be filled internally or given based on tenure are doled out to newcomers which leads to higher turnover.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Remote work and flexibility Size of company is great - not too big, not too small Great coworkers (aside from the leadership)

Cons

- Horrible psychological work environment. The senior leaders in my department were absolutely terrifying and incredibly nitpicky, rather than encouraging and supportive to their people. - Career growth is a joke at Workiva, and leaders make it clear by their actions (and at times, words) that it's not a priority. I remember sitting on a department call where my VP said, "Growth is not getting a promotion at Workiva," and the context in which she said it made it feel cold, patronizing, and disheartening. Departmental calls were often uncomfortable and totally deflating. - Extremely unrealistic and very subjective standards - No manager accountability - People constantly live in fear, but the work flexibility and "great place to work" facade keep employees stuck in a toxic loop - When they get the slightest whiff of unhappiness, they push you out. I've seen it time and time again (which then creates a toxic fear culture) - Constant gaslighting

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